Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield

Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield (13 July 1859-13 October 1947) was the Labour MP for Seaham from 1922 to 1929, succeeding Evan Hayward and preceding Ramsay MacDonald.

Biography
Sidney Webb was born in London, England in 1859. He joined the Fabian Society in 1885 and developed many of its ideas on socialism, and he married Beatrice Potter in 1892. They soon engaged in full-time social research; in 1894, they co-founded the London School of Economics, together with Robert Haldane, inorder to promote research into social policy. Their own research bore considerable fruits, most notably The History of Trade Unionism, and English Local Government, a work whose quality was paralleled by its size (11 volumes, 1903-1929). In 1913 they established a further platform for their views through the creation of the journal New Statesman. Webb served in the London County Council from 1892 to 1910, and he drafted the Labour policy on domestic affairs in 1918 (Labour and the New Social Order), and was elected an MP in 1922. He became President of the Board of Trade in 1924, and Colonial Secretary in the year he was raised to the peerage, 1929. He died in 1947.